Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad Co. v. State of Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Court of Appeals for the Western Shore of Maryland. This was an action of indebitatus assumpsit, brought by the defendant in error, in the Baltimore County Court, to recover certain State taxes assessed upon the real and personal property of the plaintiff in error, being in Harford County in the State of Maryland.
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Error to the Court of Appeals for the Western Shore of Maryland. This was an action of indebitatus assumpsit, brought by the defendant in error, in the Baltimore County Court, to recover certain State taxes assessed upon the real and personal property of the plaintiff in error, being in Harford County in the State of Maryland. The suit was docketed by consent, with an agreement that a judgment pro forma should be entered for the plaintiff, now defendant in error, upon a statement of facts. An appeal was taken from this judgment to the Court of Appeals, where it was affirmed pro forma, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The plaintiff in error is a corporation composed of several railroad companies, which had been previously chartered by the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.; and which, by corresponding laws of the respective States, were united together, and form one corporation under the name and style of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company. The road of this corporation extends from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
One of the companies which now forms a part of this, corporation was originally the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad Company, and was chartered by Maryland by…
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